This Mac for me was all about the fact that I was in for a bargain! For the princely sum of £100 on eBay I managed to aquire myself my first multi-processor mac. Not only did I aquire the mac but I also got a 17″ 4:3 aspect ratio Cinema Display and some snazzy Apple Pro Speakers.
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver
The spec of the Mac when it arrived was as expected from the auction, which is a nice thing to see, because I have been shafted in the past on specification. It came with 1.25Gb RAM, 80Gb Disk and Dual 800Mhz processors. Sweet! All for £100!
Now, to be honest, I haven’t done a lot with this machine. It’s done it’s share of video transcoding, that’s for sure, but I just couldn’t find the niche for it in my setup. I added a USB2 card since it only had USB1.1 on-board and the bonus was it had Gbit Ethernet built in but still, nothing doing. Even today, this is gathering dust in my office. If anyone has a use for it and wants to make me an offer, let me know.
It’s a nice looking machine though and in the right hands would still be pretty good. Add a compatible SATA card and you’d easily fill those 4 disk slots with some high capacity drives for a decent file server or whatever!
It wasn’t all bad though, the Cinema Display and speakers are now in use at my parents, so there’s only one power socket for them to turn on, they get a great picture and surprisingly great sound from those small, but surprisingly heavy and well built speakers.
I’ll consider reuniting the whole package if the G4-DA goes to the mac graveyard in the sky, but for now I think I’ll run a duster over it 
PL
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